Image: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un salutes during a visit to the Ministry of the People’s Armed Forces on the occasion of the new year, in this undated file photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on January 10, 2016. REUTERS/KCNA/Files
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country would soon conduct a nuclear warhead explosion test and a test launch of ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads, the official KCNA news agency reported on Tuesday.
Kim made the comments as he supervised a successful simulated test of atmospheric re-entry of a ballistic missile, KCNA said.
(Reporting by Jack Kim and Ju-min Park)
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